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Friday, February 03, 2017

I almost forgot to signup for the Marathon, this month. So, i hurriedly asked valli to share the sheet to check the available themes and just blindly filled in my name in the empty spaces. Now comes the check, week 1 theme was one-pot meals, so i happily made a pulao last week, clicked and edited it also.

Then comes valli's mail clarifying the theme again, that it should be meals cooked in the Southern Hemisphere!😑. Yeah, our boss is like this, simple heading, but twisty theme, never take her light. But, then i loved the challenge, obviously there were lot of non-veg options, being a vegetarian, had to put a little extra effort.

I m a total zero in geography, so i had to put little more effort, first need to read what is southern hemisphere, the countries in there and then finally comes the food! Thanks to google, got some delicious meals from that part of the world. The first in the genre is this simple Red Beans & Rice. The rice uses, bacon as tadka first, and then uses Smoked Paprika as spice. I have made it vegetarian and used normal paprika.

Whenever you feel tired to cook something elaborate, try this simple rice with veggies and beans, all you need is some crisp by your side. I served it with appalams and strawberry-mint flavored water by the side.

Well simple things never attract me much Priya..and yes I wanted all of us to go back and look at geography again..I know we read that like ages back!..still you did manage so well, coming up with this beautiful one pot meal..looks so inviting!